Maybe they are.

These guys do this with real vintage hardware:

http://theotherdays.net/

*shameless self promo*

Me too: https://doug.lon.dev/fourays

and I have 2 units for sale here: https://reverb.com/uk/item/83277820-doug-lon-dev-fourays-pol...

Not exactly chiptune, but I feel the Floppotron ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-WakfBNHD0 ) is more or less in a straight line of descent from the ancients:

https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/20...

Tymes: ...I found that if I gave a write command to the tape unit and then aborted the write command before it got past the interrecord gap, I could start and stop the tape as often as maybe 300 times a second, which is in the acoustic range. So you could make a lot of noise with those things.

Hardy: He got them to play music.

Tymes: So I wrote the Stars and Stripes Forever. I used the console speaker for the piccolo. It had a drum printer, which I used for the percussion. And I had a row of tape units all synchronized so that they were all pulsing together for the trombones.

...

Tymes: We put the doors to the tape unit half way down so that they would radiate the sound really good. And you could feel it in your chest. It would go bom, bom, ba bam bom. The whole building would shake when that program ran.

EDIT: a picture of this "expensive tracker" (~USD 30 million in 2024?) may be found in http://www.cap-lore.com/Hardware/steam_42-43.pdf

Treewave used something similar, to great effect, on his Cabana EP. Prominently here on Sleep: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byKx8bZ5eq8

He hacked up the firmware of a dotmatrix printer to send it commands from his Atari 2600 or 80286 Compaq to make music. "Sound is generated by the print head pins striking the paper and the sound is picked up by a tie-clip mic on the print head. By adjusting the frequency of the printing process in software, different pitches can be played (with about a two octave range.)"

He thoughtfully includes all the source you need to do this to your own Epson LQ-500! https://www.qotile.net/dotmatrix.html

Immediately reminds me of: https://aa-project.sourceforge.net/index.html

The first video mentionned (in French) generalises about AR/VR AND provides interesting insights when reframing the AVP in this context.

Thanks for sharing!

Some French people spent the time to digitize an impressive amount of French magazines: https://www.abandonware-magazines.org/

I don’t know for other countries though.

A few of these French magazines have cult status these days : Tilt, etc. I wonder if that's the case in the English-speaking magazine world.

There is a lot of magazines and their CDs at archive.org.

You’re so human after all.

Holographic display projected from whatever wearable: watch, ring, earring, glasses...

You don’t “hold” anything, you interact freely with a screen that appears floating in front of you.

Hey, the projection could be applied directly into your own eye, as only you could see it (or eyeDrop — pun intended — with others ?)

Good luck with that, but hey, Clarke’s 3rd law:

> Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Memory lane: the same Tenochtitlan was reconstructed in VRML back in the late 90’s…

http://www.dellerae.com/tenoch/

The city that never ends getting reconstructed, in a way!

They already are: with these on-prem versions of the common public clouds.

Yes and no: despite the very visible inspiration it's rather NOT coming from the game anymore, as stated in the https://space-invaders.com/about/ section:

  This said, my initial source of inspiration was the Space Invaders and a few other video games but I have rapidly developed new models and created totally original icons.

I remember he also said before that was an effort to avoid any copyright infringement. Taito seems to be pretty nice with him though, which is not granted these days!